The wife of the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges she assisted him ahead of the fatal shooting of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida and later misleading authorities. Families of Orlando victims sue Facebook, Google, Twitter Noor Salman, 30, aided and abetted husband Omar Mateen in... Read more »

A general view of Shanghai’s financial district of Pudong amid heavy smog is seen in Shanghai. PHOTO: REUTERS BEIJING: Chinese authorities have asked an unnamed Chinese province to turn off its early warning alert system for smog to avoid mismatches between environment and meteorological authority forecasts, state media reported late on Tuesday. Nearly three years into a “war on pollution”, large... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 17, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS DAVOS: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned countries on Tuesday against returning to protectionist trade policies, saying there would be no winners in a trade war. Likening protectionism to “locking oneself in a dark room” to protect from danger but also depriving... Read more »

LAHORE: Ambulances at public hospitals coming up to the standards of Rescue 1122 will be taken over by the emergency service while the rest would remain with the hospitals, said Punjab Health Minister Khawaja Imran Nazir. In a recent meeting with senior officials, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered all public hospitals of the province to hand over their ambulances to... Read more »

KATHMANDU: A wild elephant killed an Indian tourist in Nepal’s largest national park on Tuesday in the second deadly attack in recent months. The 22-year-old woman was returning on foot with her parents from a jungle safari in Chitwan National Park when the elephant charged at the group. “She was immediately taken to a hospital but died while under treatment,” Chitwan’s... Read more »

Cristiano Ronaldo hits back at media campaign against him after winning FIFA best player award. PHOTO: REUTERS MADRID: Real Madrid star striker Cristiano Ronaldo has claimed he had to overcome media “campaigns” against him to win FIFA’s inaugural “The Best” prize for the world’s best player in 2016. Ronaldo lifted the award at a star-studded ceremony in Zurich on Monday after... Read more »

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon waves as he departs from UN Headquarters on December 30, 2016, in New York. PHOT: AFP UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon paid an emotional farewell to the United Nations on Friday, wistfully describing his two-term stint at the helm of the global body as something of a fairy tale. “I feel a bit like Cinderella. Tomorrow... Read more »

NEW DELHI: China has blocked India’s request to add the head of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant group to a United Nations Security Council blacklist of groups linked to al Qaeda, India said on Friday. India has accused the JeM and its top leader, Maulana Masood Azhar, of masterminding several attacks, including a deadly assault on an Indian airbase in January. Pakistani security... Read more »

MUMBAI: A deadline for Indians to deposit invalid rupee notes at banks closes on Friday as attention turns towards the potential political ramifications of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bold currency shakeup. Restrictions on the amount of cash that can be withdrawn from ATMs are also due to be lifted, 52 days after Modi scrapped high-denomination notes in a crackdown on corruption.... Read more »

Your Stars Today Aries | March 20 – April 18 As an Aries, you’d prefer to concentrate on one thing at a time. That way, you could make plans once, do whatever is required, then shift your focus to whatever is next. While, mostly, that’s unrealistic, at the moment you’re being forced to juggle several complex matter sat the same... Read more »